A Relational Wholebody Focusing Retreat
Frenchtown, New Jersey
May 30-31, 2026
Facilitated by Jocelyn Jacks Kahn
Certified Relational Wholebody Focusing for Life Trainer
and the North Jersey Focusing Trainers Team
See what past participants have said about previous Focusing retreats:
Each time an in-person workshop experience is posted by one of the North Jersey Focusing Trainers, I know it will be something I don't want to miss. Why? Their Focusing workshops, experiential in nature, consistently provide direct access to a place of peace and calm within me and access to my inner world that more often than not results in a wanted internal shift and even an "aha moment" coming from my body's innate wisdom.
Their Daylong version of their "Resting in the Relational Field", was no exception. Learning Whole-body Focusing has given me a new way to bring my mind, body and spirit into harmony and is a new, valuable tool that I've added to my Focusing toolbox.
The many years of Focusing experience and knowledge that the North Jersey Focusing Trainers bring to their offerings ensure that participants receive the support and guidance they need. The trainers also offer their welcoming, caring and open hearts, generosity of spirit, sense of curiosity, deep listening and compassion, qualities that focusers are encouraged to bring to their focusing sessions. The trainers truly live what they teach.
I extend my sincere thanks to Jocelyn Kahn and Beth Mahler, the facilitators of Friday's workshop, and Yoshimi Shimizu, another trainer who assisted, for creating such a rich in-person experience for us. The content was informative and very well presented, as were the instructions, and the experiential exercises brought the teachings to life. The gorgeous location of the workshop and delicious homemade food that you provided were icing on the cake. Again, thank you all so much!
I cannot recommend Focusing and the North Jersey Focusing Trainers highly enough. Karin Dubowick, A Caring Presence, North Haledon, NJ
Thank you for a great experience at your workshop! You give it a special touch with your love and care for people. It transforms lives! I am grateful to have met such amazing group of people... Irene Sonja Fanane, ATP, awakeningtoangels.com
There are no words to express the depth of my gratitude for your gift of another amazing Focusing retreat weekend. I cannot believe all that came up! It seems I go to a deeper place focusing with you than I do with others and I appreciate how you helped me to process all of that. Karin K., NJ
Eugene Gendlin wrote:
“Your physically felt body is in fact part of a gigantic system of here and other places, now and other times, you and other people - in fact, the whole universe. The sense of being bodily alive in a vast system is the body as felt from the inside." (from Focusing)
But most of us are born and raised with a very different sense of who we are. At times, we can feel like a fragile object in a sea of other objects, an inherently stressful view of ourselves.
As we face the difficulties of living and interacting in 2026, it can feel very natural to fall back into this default way of existing, locked in a holding pattern of isolation, tension, and lack of trust in ourselves and the world.
So there can be a sense of disconnect between Gendlin’s beautiful words and our felt reality of isolation and the resulting tension.
This 2-Day Retreat will help us reconnect with this “vast system as felt from inside” as our actual felt reality.
We will be using experiential explorations from Relational Wholebody Focusing to expand our capacity to settle, rest, and ground into the relational field that is already here, supporting us, right now. Focusing partnerships will be a core part of the weekend.
We ask you to bring a willingness to PAUSE as we bring our awareness to the vast system of support that is already here for us, right now. We will be building our capacity to trust our bodily felt knowing, to trust the Focusing process, and to trust ourselves.
Please Note: In order to maintain the continuity of the retreat, we are only accepting participants who can attend the entire weekend.
Date: May 30 & 31, 2026
Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm each day
Place: Frenchtown, NJ (You will receive further details once you have signed up)
Lunch: Please bring a bag lunch. In addition, we will provide soup and salad.
Facilitators: Jocelyn Jacks Kahn, CFT & the NJFT Team
Tuition: $150.00 for the weekend*
*If you are enrolled in the Four Corners 2-Year Program, this is already included in your Program fee)
Is there Housing?
This is not an overnight retreat. However, if you are not local to the Frenchtown area, you may be able to stay overnight at/near the venue - please contact us as early as possible to see if a room is available.
TO REGISTER:
Complete the Registration Form (on this page). Provide your name, email and address. If you are paying via PayPal, Jocelyn will send you a PayPal invoice for the $150.00 fee. (Please note that you do NOT need a PayPal account to pay via PayPal.) If you need to pay another way, please indicate how you would like to pay in the "Comments" section on the form.
LAST DAY TO REGISTER:
MONDAY, May 22, 2026
(Please Note: Limited to 14 Participants)
Please note: Your registration is confirmed ONLY once we receive payment.
If this feels right for you, we would love to have you!
Jocelyn & the NJFT Team
North Jersey Focusing Trainers
Learn more about Jocelyn here.
Questions? Please contact:
Jocelyn Kahn at jocelynkahn@gmail.com
or 201-790-5604
Please Complete
Registration Form Below